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Friday, November 21.  On Wednesday, I hosted Randy Fielding, who has had a varied and distinguished career as an individual who can design things that enhance the experience. This could be a building or a concept within a building like a school. Randy is currently building a new concept, Classroom Reimagined AI , is using these principles to give school personnel a tool that you can redesign and reimagine on the fly. I eagerly await its launch in the next couple of months. All of you can watch and help to utilize the tool to add to your own redesign palate!  I have known Randy for 5-6 years. His former brainchild, Fielding International  was a partner for our building and school redesign project at BBE. In addition to actually designing structures like our Socratic outdoor classroom at the elementary school to our student plaza at the high school, we also partnered with Fielding to make changes to the learning environment within the school. All of these things were done w...

NewTech High Podcast November 12, 2025 Good afternoon,  Dr. Matt Townsley Podcast As you can see from the title, it is almost impossible to consider how to change major elements of a high school without considering whether you are going to make big changes with your assessment practices.  This afternoon, we had a leading expert on standards-based grading reform, Dr. Matt Townsley of the University of Northern Iowa, as our guest. Dr. Townsley impressed us with his enthusiastic delivery and easy to follow tools to improve your school through standards-based grading. It seems that we have a podcast crowd that wants to watch on their own more than watching live, so I do appreciate the small audience that we get for the sessions. You can watch tonight's podcast here .  Dr. Townsley talked about the 4 P's of developing standards-based grading in your school, an order of operations if you will. He started by talking about developing a purpose of grading statement. Why do we gra...

 November 6, 2025 Episode 10 -- Podcast with Will Grube, Gruvy Education We had an excellent afternoon podcast yesterday talking with Will Grube about Artificial Intelligence tools in schools. Will has turned himself into one of our country's leading experts on how to change practices in schools to better utilize AI tools. If you weren't able to be there, I'd invite you to review the podcast. If you aren't sharing these discussions with fellow educators, it is a great opportunity for you to get cheap PD, or I should say, free PD, on topics of relevance for colleagues and teachers.  Episode 10 Podcast I took this recent email from Will on how you can save time in your HR Department using AI tools that can save you hours depending on your implementation.  12 practical ways to use AI in Operation/HR. AI Prompt Vault for School Operations & HR .  In it, you will find ready-made AI prompts that speed up HR and operational tasks. These are  3 of the 12  promp...